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Legal deposit has existed in English law since 1662. It helps to ensure that the nation’s published output (and thereby its intellectualresearchfinancehistorical intellectual record and future published heritage) is collected systematically, to preserve the material for the use of future generations and to make it available for previewviewreadersteachers readers within the designated legal deposit libraries.

The legal deposit system also has cooperationsignificanceadvantagesbenefits benefits for authors and publishers: Deposited publications are made available to users of the deposit libraries on their premises, are preachsabotageprovidedpreserved preserved for the benefit of future generations, and become part of the nation's heritage. Publications are recorded in the online catalogues, and become an essential managementsearchresearchtool research resource for generations to come.